Chan-Da-da(o)-De-construction or, The Cultural (Il)Logic of Contemporary Chinese “Avant-Garde” Art

Volume 7, Number 4, July/August 2008
by Paul Gladston


Article Description

Paul Gladston brings into play the ideas of writers and philosophers who influenced much of the theoretical discourse in the 1980s, among them Guy Debord, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, and Roland Barthes, and explore the possible application of their ideas in thinking about contemporary Chinese art.


Related Keywords

Paul Gladston, deconstructive theory, avant-garde, non-representation, Chan Buddhism, Zhao Shulin, Shu Yong, comparative aesthetics, classic of the Dao, Huang Yongping